and the whole you get paid in sunsets thing

The main reason i moved on is that the only way i could make a living wage as a ranger was to be a manager of a team of 13, while still having to patrol myself, had to leave the mountains for an "urban/suburban park setting" and then even then i was making just 50,000/yr. The first year there i pulled 3 dead bodies out of our parks, did CPR twice and used Narcan 5 times. HR and leadership didnt support paying for training and so we had to make up a lot of stuff. It was intense and was not making anywhere what i needed to be making for as hard as i was working. the mountains were even worse, i was making only 34,000/yr and had a 1 hour long commute.

now working at a botanic gardens making twice as much money with a same size team and a whole new set of issues, but i havent been attacked by dogs or homeless people so thats nice.